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"I will say, and I will get in trouble for this, and I will deal with the trouble that I will get into: that kiss almost got cut. And I was like, absolutely not. Like, we have to have it. We have to have it on screen. We have to have it. And I had to fight a little for it . . . This is going to be huge, huge for the Destiel fans out there. We need to have it." -Rachel Lynett

Having the time of my life

"Respectfully to Kripke and everybody else, [John being a veteran] kind of gets a little brushed over, I think, in Supernatural and like . . . how does war haunt you? How does that change you, you know? . . . How did that change John? Like, when we see John in Supernatural, he's just kind of this like, geeky good kid, you know, in the flashbacks, and it's like, he just came back from 'Nam, like he's not... he can't be that put together." -Rachel Lynett

"I can't remember exactly how we went about picking this particular episode for this moment . . . absolutely insane to me that I'm like working on a script and I get to even just write [Dean's] name down there. It was very strange. Yeah, I mean, so much of that was the brainchild of Robbie and Jensen working together as well, like they had a vision and a plan for the Dean of it all . . . It was super cool to see it happening, like to be talking about it for a long time and then for it to actually be on paper and then to see the early cuts of the moment and then when it was like cut with score and music like it gave me chills the first time I saw it. I was like this is such a cool ending to an episode and people are gonna be freaking out in the best way. And I'm so excited." –Nic Chatree Sridej

"[John eventually] gets to talk to his dad. And, like, what does that mean? Like, how does that change John's trajectory? Like, one of my biggest things I'm sad about with The Winchesters being cancelled is, like, I'd love to see how this John grows up. Like how does this John change having been able to talk to the ghost of his dad, having to fight all this, having to know about monsters before Mary's death, you know? How does trauma change when you can face it face forward rather than backward?" -Rachel Lynett

"When other people point out how you were treated horribly, you shouldn't have gone through this, this was abusive . . . He's like, oh, no, I'm okay. Yeah, no, it wasn't that bad. I'm fine. But he's allowed to say within himself, actually, this is messed up."

Hi, everybody! We're back with a brand new episode and it's a really special one. We're talking to the fabulous Rachel Lynett, who worked in the writers room on The Winchesters, and penned episode 1x09 "Cast Your Fate to the Wind." Tune in wherever you listen to podcasts to hear the full interview! (photo credit: Tangled Trails Media)